2006 Spring General
Election Supplement

External Vice President, Statewide Affairs


candidate
William "Bill" Shiebler - Students' Party

What's up SB! My name is Bill Shiebler and I am running for Vice President of Statewide Affairs with the Students' Party.


I want to start with why I am running but first, let's take a look at where our UCSB community is at. First, we recently won a campaign to lower student fees for all UCSB students, a campaign I coordinated. We are working on creative fundraising to make sure students have more resources on campus in light of budget cuts. There is slowly more financial aid coming in and the fight will continue. However these great accomplishments are still weighed down by continuing problems facing our university. Students remain disconnected from A.S. and our effort to represent accurately needs to be revamped. The state and federal government continue to make record breaking cuts to education and we the students suffer. There is plenty left to fight for.

I am the current External VP for Statewide Affairs, after being involved in the office for over two years; I have lobbied UC Regents, state legislators, and congress on behalf of students and am deeply familiar with the issues affecting students on a system wide and national level.

We need a VP who will be able to hear all students and voice their concerns to our representatives abroad and most importantly, to make those concerns a reality. I'm asking for your vote. A vote for commitment, experience, and success! Vote Bill Shiebler for VP of Statewide Affairs and vote Students' Party!

candidate
Nazgool "Naz" Hassan Zadeh-Kiabi - Open People's Party (O.P.P.)

My name is Naz, and I am a fourth-year undergraduate disabled student at UCSB. I have been involved with several different organizations on campus such as Commission On Disability Access, Community Affairs Board, RHA, and the AS Program Board. When I arrived in 2002, I dealt with the lack of accessibility on this campus. All that the Disabled Students Program office offered me was a note taker. Being a disabled student, I can appreciate the lack of access in this ever more costly system that potential students face because of cuts to outreach and constantly rising fees. As EVPSA, I will be dealing with Congress's recently approved $12 billion cut to student loan programs. In the 1999-2000 academic year, the educational fees per quarter were $906. This year's educational fees have increased to $1802. If elected as EVPSA, I will be the sanctioned spokesperson for the UCSB students at the state level. My main goal is to work with the UC Student Association to confront these issues by making the Regents and UC office of the President answerable. In order to lower student fees, we must persist in rallying, lobbying, and investigating different solutions to tackle these problems. I will research and help facilitate beneficial relationships with various loan companies and banks in order to allow students the option of private loans with lower rates. As the O.P.P. mission statement says, "Our doors are always open," so please feel free to approach me with any questions, concerns, or dilemmas.



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